Tip 1: Gathering information
Gather information from family members
- Ask for names, dates, places, and family stories
- Take complete notes
- Shoot photographs
- Record audio
- Ask to make copies of photographs and records
- Offer to share your findings
Transfer information to pedigree and family history forms
- Print online forms
- Use online services like Ancestry (available in the Historical Society's research room)
- Use other types of genealogy applications
Analyze forms
- Note areas with information gaps or conflicts
- Note areas with conflicting data
- Select a few people to research in more depth
- Start with obituaries in Kansas newspapers
Plan a research trip to the Kansas Historical Society's State Archives in Topeka.
Tip 2: Searching Census
Tip 3: Searching vital records
Tip 4: Newspapers
Tip 5: Were they really orphans?
Tip 6: Kansas Plat Atlas
